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title = "Multi-Task Stance Detection with Sentiment and Stance Lexicons",
author = "Li, Yingjie and
Caragea, Cornelia",
editor = "Inui, Kentaro and
Jiang, Jing and
Ng, Vincent and
Wan, Xiaojun",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)",
month = nov,
year = "2019",
address = "Hong Kong, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-1657",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-1657",
pages = "6299--6305",
abstract = "Stance detection aims to detect whether the opinion holder is in support of or against a given target. Recent works show improvements in stance detection by using either the attention mechanism or sentiment information. In this paper, we propose a multi-task framework that incorporates target-specific attention mechanism and at the same time takes sentiment classification as an auxiliary task. Moreover, we used a sentiment lexicon and constructed a stance lexicon to provide guidance for the attention layer. Experimental results show that the proposed model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art deep learning methods on the SemEval-2016 dataset.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Multi-Task Stance Detection with Sentiment and Stance Lexicons
%A Li, Yingjie
%A Caragea, Cornelia
%Y Inui, Kentaro
%Y Jiang, Jing
%Y Ng, Vincent
%Y Wan, Xiaojun
%S Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)
%D 2019
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Hong Kong, China
%F li-caragea-2019-multi
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Markdown (Informal)
[Multi-Task Stance Detection with Sentiment and Stance Lexicons](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1657) (Li & Caragea, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
ACL
- Yingjie Li and Cornelia Caragea. 2019. Multi-Task Stance Detection with Sentiment and Stance Lexicons. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), pages 6299–6305, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.